Release versions

[EddieOne]

Hi, sorry I have a dumb question. Can someone explains the release versions or point me to a page? I've been mostly using 0.10.x and 0.12.x. Now I see 3.x.x and 4.x.x. Is the release number change because of the foundation or io.js merger?

[Trott]

Node v0.12.x was the most recent Node before the merger. Prior to the merger, most recent io.js was 3.x.x. The first Node post-merger was 4.0.0 so that there wold be no version number collisions with prior versions of Node or io.js. If you are running version 0.12.7 or 3.0.0 or 4.1.0, each of those version numbers can mean only one thing. This avoids things like, "Are you seeing that error on io.js version 1.0.0 or Node 1.0.0?" It's just 1.0.0 (or 4.0.0 or whatever). (It's important to realize io.js installed itself as node as well as iojs so you couldn't really be sure it wasn't node if there were version number collisions.)

[Trott]

I'm going to close this, but obviously, that shouldn't stop people from correcting any errors I've made above or providing a clearer explanation than I've managed.

[EddieOne]

Thanks a lot.